Volunteer

The Food Bank relies on volunteers to distribute food every day to those in need and therefore play a key role in ensuring that people in need have access to nutritious food. We hope that you can join us in our mission to alleviate hunger in San Luis Obisp County. Help us build a healthier community, ask your friends, co-workers, or family to join your efforts and spend a day making a difference in your community!

Opportunities

Warehouse Volunteers help us daily to inspect, sort, and organize food we rescue from local grocery stores. We also need help to pre-package the fresh produce and shelf stable food, like canned and dry goods, that we distribute at our county wide public food distributions.

Distribution Sites The Food Bank has 52 direct food distribution sites throughout the county. Thanks to dedicated individuals and service groups, many of our direct food distributions are run by volunteers.

Food DrivesThe Food Bank coordinates two county wide food drives every year. Volunteers are needed to solicit and collect non-perishable food items in front of local participating grocery stores during a two hour shift on weekends (Saturday & Sundays only).

Special Events The Food Bank has a variety of fundraiser events throughout the year. The two largest are Hunger Awareness Day and Hunger Walk. These campaigns have been successful year after year thanks to the help of community members who have donated their time.

Programs Several of our food programs rely on the help from long term volunteers to run their programs year round. Below is a list of programs that are seeking extra help. An orientation and training is provided when applicable.

CalFresh Outreach Program

Chldren's Programs

GleanSLo

Nutrition Education Program

Court Ordered Volunteers If you have been ordered to complete community work service of have been given the option to perform community work service (CWS) in lieu of paying your fine, you can complete your hours at one of our warehouse facilities afterhaving gone through either ECOSLO or Pucciarelli Consulting. Please contact us for more information.